African origins : "I got my religion from out of the sun" -- The transatlantic journey : "I don't care where you bury my body" -- African resistance to enslavement : "Dark clouds a'risin'" -- The great enslavement : "De udder worl' is not like dis" -- Remembering and organizing : "And before I'd be a slave" -- The gathering of freedom fighters : "All my troubles will soon be over with" -- The Civil War : "My Lord gwineter to rain down fire" -- The promise of reconstruction : "Swing low, sweet chariot" -- A new repression cometh : "Now ain't them hard trials" -- In defiance of segregatiion : "And still we rise" -- The era of demonstrative protest : "Great day, great day, the righteous marching" -- The transforming of America : "Before this time another year" -- Social and economic realities : "Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel" -- Dates to remember.